For the school year, 1959-1960, the Prince Edward County ( Virginia ) Board of Supervisors voted not to provide funds for public education, and the school board therefore could provide no public education -- for white or Negro children.

He is on the Advisory Board for the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg, West Virginia.

In 1959, the Board of Visitors of UVA selected a permanent name for the college: George Mason College of the University of Virginia.

On September 20, 2011, the County Board of Arlington County, Virginia voted to change the name of " Old Jefferson Davis Highway " ( the original route of the road in the County ) after the chairman of the Board, Chris Zimmerman, who was originally from the Northeast, stated: " I have a problem with ' Jefferson Davis ' ...

The Safety Board maintains a training academy in Ashburn, Virginia, where it conducts courses for its employees and professionals in other government agencies, foreign governments or private companies, in areas such as general accident investigation, specific elements of investigations like survival factors or human performance, or related matters like family affairs or media relations.

In Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council,, the Court overruled Valentine and ruled that commercial speech was entitled to First Amendment protection:

It would not be until the adoption of the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1962, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections in 1966, that all poll taxes and literacy tests were prohibited in all elections.

Nevertheless, Gobitis was soon repudiated ( West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette ), and the Steel Seizure Case restricted the pro-government trend.

The Post reported that documentation describing these conditions had been reported to the Virginia Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers.

The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that the original crown charter provided the authority for the corporation's Board of Visitors to make changes including the reorganization.

The Honorable Dwight C. Jones, a prominent Baptist pastor and former Chairman of the Richmond School Board and Member of the Virginia House of Delegates serves as Mayor of the City of Richmond.

In 1943 the Supreme Court reversed its decision, ruling in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that public school students are not required to say the Pledge, concluding that " compulsory unification of opinion " violates the First Amendment.

The case of Brown v. Board of Education as heard before the Supreme Court combined five cases: Brown itself, Briggs v. Elliott ( filed in South Carolina ), Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County ( filed in Virginia ), Gebhart v. Belton ( filed in Delaware ), and Bolling v. Sharpe ( filed in Washington D. C .).

Several notable exceptions exist in the Commonwealth of Virginia: the University of Virginia ( Charlottesville ), University of Mary Washington ( Fredericksburg ), George Mason University ( Fairfax ), Virginia State University ( Petersburg ), Virginia Commonwealth University ( Richmond ), Washington and Lee University ( Lexington ), the College of William and Mary ( Williamsburg ), Old Dominion University ( Norfolk ), and Virginia Tech ( Blacksburg ) use the term " Rector " to designate the head of the Board of Visitors.

However, it was not until the U. S. Supreme Court ruled 6 – 3 in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections ( 1966 ) that poll taxes for state elections were unconstitutional because they violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

All of the schools above are accredited by the Virginia Board of Education and by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

In Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, a state court rejected the suit, agreeing with defense attorney T. Justin Moore that Virginia was vigorously equalizing black and white schools.

As a result of the Brown decision, and changes in Virginia laws, in 1959 the Board of Supervisors for Prince Edward County refused to appropriate any funds at all for the County School Board, effectively closing all public schools rather than integrate them.

A 1990 article for the Cato Institute identifies Singer as the director of the science and environmental policy project at the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, on leave from the University of Virginia.

* American President: John Quincy Adams ( 1767 – 1848 ) at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia

* American President: James Monroe ( 1758 – 1831 ) at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia

* American President: Martin Van Buren ( 1782 – 1862 ) at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia

This led to the U. S. Congress to enact the Public Law 81-600 which led to the Congressional approval of a local constitution drafted by a constitutional assembly elected by Puerto Rico and the renaming of the United States unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, using the same official name as the commonwealths of the U. S. states of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as that of other sovereign nation countries such as Australia.

* Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Warren Gamaliel Harding ( 1865 – 1923 )

" Public Choice: The Origins and Development of a Research Program ," Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University, Fairfax: Virginia, USA.

Water is provided by the city's Department of Public Utilities, and is one of the largest water producers in Virginia, with a modern plant that can treat up to 132 million gallons of water a day from the James River.

An early proponent of skyscrapers in works like the Woolworth Building, Gilbert was also responsible for numerous museums ( Saint Louis Art Museum ) and libraries ( Saint Louis Public Library ), state capitol buildings ( the Minnesota, Arkansas and West Virginia State Capitols, for example ) as well as public architectural icons like the United States Supreme Court building.

He taught at the University of Virginia, where he founded the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression ; UCLA ; Florida State University ; the University of Tennessee ; and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (" Virginia Tech "), where he was affiliated with the Center for the Study of Public Choice ( CSPC ).

Gloucester County Public Schools is the Virginia public school division serving the county.

Public schools in Summers County are governed by the Summers County Schools school district ; per West Virginia state law, all school districts in West Virginia follow county boundaries.

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* The Wise County Summer Academy of Art, sponsored by Wise County Public Schools and funded in part by the Virginia Commission of Arts, provides fine arts programming for children throughout the summer months, including large scale productions and touring performance opportunities.

* Washington County Virginia Public Schools

In 2006, Patrick County Public Schools was listed as an outperforming school district, one of 12 in the state of Virginia, by Standard and Poor's.

Essex County Public Schools ( ECPS ) is the public schools system for Essex County, Virginia, United States.

* Campbell County Public Schools ( Virginia )

Virginia Gardens is a part of Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

Stern gained admission to the School of Public Communications in 1974 and earned a diploma in July 1975 at the Radio Engineering Institute of Electronics in Fredericksburg, Virginia which allowed him to apply for a first class FCC radio-telephone license.

National president of the Public Relations Society of America, Poet Laureate of Virginia.

He resigned as Co-Chairman of Freedom Works in March 2005 after the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) questioned his ties to Samir Vincent, a Northern Virginia oil trader implicated in the U. N. Oil-for-food scandal who pled guilty to four criminal charges, including illegally acting as an unregistered lobbyist of the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.

Beginning in 1816, the Virginia Board of Public Works began providing engineering and financial assistance to internal improvements around the state in transportation which continued during most of the 19th century.

See Joseph G. Dreiss, Gari Melchers ; His Works in the Belmont Collection, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1984, pp. 11ff.

These include: Oleta Adams " Circle of One " album ( reaching No. 1 in the UK charts 1991 ); Marc Almond " Tenement Symphony " album which included the epic tracks " Jacky " and " The Days of Pearly Spencer "; The Associates " Wild and Lonely " album ; Rick Astley " Free " album ; B * Witched " Awake and Breathe " album ; Chris Botti " Slowing Down the World " album ; Boyzone " A Different Beat " album ; Cher " It's a Man's World " album ; Petula Clark " La Vie en Rose " track ; Lloyd Cole and the Commotions " Rattlesnakes " album ; Andrea Corr " Ten Feet High " album ; Cathy Dennis " Move to This " and " Into the Skyline " albums ; Electronic " Getting Away with It " single ( reaching No. 12 in the UK charts 1990 ); Frankie Goes to Hollywood " Welcome to the Pleasuredome " album which included their 2nd and 3rd No. 1s " Two Tribes " and " The Power of Love "; Elton John " The Big Picture " album ; Martyn Joseph " Being There " album ; Kingmaker " Sleepwalking " album ; Annie Lennox " Medusa " album ( No. 1 in the UK charts 1995 ); Let Loose " Best In Me " single ; Virginia MacNaughton " The Music " album ; Paul McCartney " Press to Play " album ; Malcolm McLaren " Duck Rock " album ; The Men They Couldn't Hang " A Map Of Morocco " single ; George Michael " Careless Whisper " single ( reaching No. 1 in 25 countries ); Liza Minnelli " Results " album ( reaching No. 6 in the UK charts 1989 ); The Moody Blues " Greatest Hits " album ; Moist " Gasoline " single ; Jimmy Nail " Crocodile Shoes " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1994 ); The Painted Word " Lovelife " album ; Pet Shop Boys " Very " album ; Pulp " Different Class " and " This Is Hardcore " albums ( both reaching No. 1 ); Rialto " Monday Morning 5: 19 " single ; Frances Ruffelle " Stranger To The Rain " single ; S Club " 7 album " ( No. 1 in the UK charts 2000 ); Scarlet " Naked " album ; Seal first 3 albums " Seal " " Seal II " " Human Being "; Siphiwo " Hope " album ( featuring Nelson Mandela on the title track ); Wendy Stark " Stark " album ; Rod Stewart " A Spanner in the Works " album and " If We Fall in Love Tonight " album and the single " Downtown Train "; Suggs " The Lone Ranger " album ; Travis " More Than Us " EP featuring Anne on the title track ; Tina Turner " Wildest Dreams " album ; Wet Wet Wet " Holding Back the River " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1989 ); Wham!

It was followed by the " English Scholar's Library " ( 16 volumes ) which included the Works ( 1884 ) of Captain John Smith, governor of Virginia, and the Poems ( 1882 ) of Richard Barnfield.

In 1934 the PRR received a $ 77 million loan from the New Deal's Public Works Administration To complete the electrification project initiated in 1928, work was started January 27, 1937, on the main line from Paoli to Harrisburg ; the low-grade freight line from Morrisville through Columbia to Enola Yard in Pennsylvania ; the Port Road Branch from Perryville, Maryland to Columbia ; the Jamesburg Branch and Amboy Secondary freight line from Monmouth Junction to South Amboy ; and the Landover-South End freight line from Landover, Maryland through Washington to Potomac Yard in Alexandria, Virginia ( now called the Landover Subdivision and RF & P Subdivision of CSX ).

With considerable financial assistance from the Virginia Board of Public Works, the Virginia Central Railroad and a state-owned link through the Blue Ridge Mountains had been completed along this route as far as the upper reaches of the Shenandoah Valley when the War interrupted progress.

* The " Inyo ", a 4-4-0 steam locomotive built for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad ( V & T # 22 ) in 1875 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, appeared in both the Golden Spike ceremony scene in " Union Pacific " ( 1939 ) and in the 1960s TV series The Wild Wild West.

* The Salem witchcraft papers: verbatim transcripts of the legal documents of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692 / compiled and transcribed in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, under the supervision of Archie N. Frost ; edited and with an introduction and index by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum ; Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library ; pg.

Works by Charles Rohlfs are included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, High Museum of Art, Huntington Art Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Art and Wolfsonian-FIU.

Virginia beginning in 1816 had taken on debt to help finance many internal public improvements through the Virginia Board of Public Works before the Civil War.

Works of art on paper, including pencil, pastel, charcoal and watercolor sketches by artist and naturalist Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Virginia Dupalais, and Lucy Sistare.

He was one of the most influential members of the convention, which instituted measures associated with the Progressive movement, such as the establishment of the State Corporation Commission to regulate railroads and other corporations, replacing the former Virginia Board of Public Works.

Through the Board of Public Works, the Virginia state government helped finance turnpikes among its programs to encourage internal improvements, with tolls collected to defray operating costs and retire debt.

In 1968, Heizer was included in " Earth Works ", the influential group show at Virginia Dwan's gallery, and then in the Whitney Museum's painting annual in 1969, where his contribution was a huge photograph of a dye painting in the desert.

* The Salem witchcraft papers: verbatim transcripts of the legal documents of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692 / compiled and transcribed in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, under the supervision of Archie N. Frost ; edited and with an introduction and index by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum ; Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library ; pg.

The Commonwealth of Virginia, always keen to help with internal improvements not only owned a portion of Virginia Central stock through the state Board of Public Works, but incorporated and financed the Blue Ridge Railroad to accomplish the hard and expensive task of crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The IFCS is being developed under the direction of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center with the collaboration of the NASA Ames Research Center, Boeing Phantom Works, the Institute for Scientific Research at West Virginia University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The historic Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia, United States was named in honour of the town.

Before the Civil War, the Virginia Board of Public Works had invested state funds in a substantial portion of the stock of the A, M & O's predecessor railroads.

The Tredegar Iron Works was a historic iron works in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.

The commissioning of 900 miles of railroad track in Virginia, largely financed by the Virginia Board of Public Works between 1846 and 1853, offered a further market in steam locomotives and rail stock.